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Max Ernst’s Collage Novels Are Part Séance, Part Victorian Underworld, and All Uncanny

by Mark Dery February 9, 2018November 19, 2021

Ernst’s trailblazing “collage novels” employ the dreamlike conjunction — the fusion or juxtaposition of unlike elements whose collision makes perfect sense, in a free-associated way.

Max Ernst, page from "Oedipus (Oedipe), Volume IV," from A Week of Kindness or the Seven Capital Elements ("Une Semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments capitaux," 1933–34), published 1934, line block after collage, from a five-volume serial novel with 182 line blocks after collages, page: 10 3/4 x 8 1/16 in, publisher: Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris; printer: Georges Duval, Paris; edition: 812; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Louis E. Stern Collection, 1964 (photo by Robert Gerhardt. © 2017 Artists Rights Society/ARS, New York / ADAGP, Paris)
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Birding with Max Ernst

by Michael Friedrich December 29, 2017December 29, 2017

In the Museum of Modern Art’s current Ernst retrospective, the artist’s avian alter ego, Loplop, reveals a realer reality.

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The Idiosyncratic Writings of Leonora Carrington, a Reluctant Surrealist

by Elisa Wouk Almino June 20, 2017June 20, 2017

Three books by Leonora Carrington, including her memoir of her time at an insane asylum, reveal the artist’s specific vision of the world, which strayed from and defied Surrealism.

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Discovering Honoré Sharrer, an Eclipsed 20th-Century Surrealist Painter

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 24, 2017April 21, 2017

A survey at the Columbus Museum of Art spotlights the remarkable work of the American artist, who was dogged in her convictions and a master of her medium.

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The Persistence of Hunger: Dalí’s Dissatisfying Cookbook

by Mark Dery December 29, 2016November 19, 2021

Salvador Dalí’s 1973 cookbook, now reprinted by Taschen, doesn’t seem to know what Surrealist cuisine is.

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An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’

by Tiernan Morgan & Lauren Purje August 10, 2016May 18, 2022

The spectacle can be found on every screen that you look at. It is the advertisements plastered on the subway and the pop-up ads that appear in your browser.

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A Deep Dive into the Legacy of LA’s Surrealists

by Daniel Gerwin August 3, 2016August 5, 2016

LOS ANGELES — The official Made in L.A. show is at the Hammer Museum, but a felicitous counterpoint is currently at Richard Telles in the Fairfax district.

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André Masson’s Tortured and Sensuous Automatic Drawings

by Joseph Nechvatal July 19, 2016July 19, 2016

PARIS — In the polyvalent and multilayered drawings of André Masson, you can sense a free hand in love with its own movement, but not with itself.

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Art Nouveau’s Deep Sea Muse

by Allison Meier March 22, 2016March 22, 2016

Art Nouveau’s organic shapes surfaced thanks to some underwater inspiration.

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Recreating the Magic Circle of a Surrealist Seriously into the Occult

by Allison Meier January 26, 2016January 26, 2016

Dressed in a crisp tuxedo, Swiss artist Kurt Seligmann stepped into a chalk circle lined with the names of archangels on the wood floor of his Manhattan apartment.

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19th-Century French Caricatures Reinvented in a Game About Bird Lawyers

by Allison Meier January 21, 2016January 21, 2016

Aviary Attorney is a game based on the caricatures of 19th-century French artist J. J. Grandville, who skewered the aristocrats and politicians of his time by illustrating society figures as animals.

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From Michelangelo to Marden, Seven Fierce Fistfights from Art History

by Elena Goukassian January 15, 2016January 24, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC — In her ongoing series Le ‘NEW’ Monocle, Shana Lutker creates stage sets and performances based on the circumstances and philosophical undertones of fistfights instigated by Surrealists in Paris in the 1920s.

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